Dawn thinks Spike was an imaginary friend.

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So after years absent from the fandom a re-watch of season five Angel has me all nostalgic for Spike so I've been reading through a bunch of my old favourite fics (and a bunch of new ones) but there's a fic that I'm after for a re-read that I can't remember enough of to find.

Basically after Buffy's death Dawn gets sent of to her father who thinks she's bug nuts crazy and sends her to a psychiatrist, who convinces her that the whole Slayer thing was a delusion she built to hide from the fact Buffy committed suicide.  She also tells Dawn that Spike was nothing more than an imaginary friend she constructed to help her cope with a lonely existence after her Mother died, or something along those lines anyway.  After time Dawn comes to believe all that and in a final journey towards accepting 'reality' she decides to visit Spikes crypt to prove to herself that he never existed...well I think you can guess how that turned out!

Anyway if anyone knows what this fic is I would be extremely grateful!